Conveners
CR: 3
- Silvia Celli (GSGC)
Ms
Daniela Mockler
(Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
06/09/2018, 15:40
Oral
The Pierre Auger Observatory is the world's largest detector for extensive air showers initiated by cosmic rays with energies above 0.3 EeV. Equipped with 1660 water-Cherenkov stations, the surface detector array spans an area of 3000 square kilometers. The combination with 27 fluorescence telescopes, which overlook the atmosphere and measure the calorimetric energy allows for a hybrid...
Mr
Juan Miguel Carceller
(University of Granada)
06/09/2018, 16:00
Oral
The Pierre Auger Observatory is the largest detector of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) built so far. With the Fluorescence Detector (FD) of the Auger Observatory, a direct measurement of the depth of maximum of shower profiles, $X_{\rm max}$, is performed using the ultraviolet light emitted by nitrogen as the shower develops in the atmosphere. With data on $X_{\rm max}$ collected during...
Niraj Dhital
(Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN)
06/09/2018, 16:20
Oral
The Pierre Auger Observatory has been very successful to determine many aspects of the highest-energy cosmic rays including, among others, the flux suppression at energies above 4x10^19 eV, stringent upper limits on photon and neutrino fluxes at ultra-high energies and an unexpected evolution of the mass composition with energy. We expect an extension of the frontiers of our knowledge on these...
Mr
Francisco Pedreira
(Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
06/09/2018, 16:40
Oral
The study of correlations between observations of different messengers from extreme sources of the Universe has emerged as an outstanding way to make progress in their understanding. The Pierre Auger Observatory is capable of significant contributions as an ultra-high energy particle detector, particularly through its capability to search for inclined showers produced by neutrinos. We describe...
